Rita Anderson
Rita Anderson is a writer (playwright, poet, novelist) born into a large family from Cleveland, Ohio. Currently, she is working on an MA in Playwrighting from Texas State University, where she had two full-lengths performed in staged readings, a ten-minute selected for the New Works Play Festival, and her first one-act has advanced to the semi-finals in ACTF. She has done community theatre in three states, and she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of New Orleans, where she taught composition and served as editor for the annual literary publication and as a Reader for the Tennessee Williams One-Act Play Festival. A proud member of the Dramatist Guild, she now resides in San Antonio, TX, with her husband, Steve, their son, Seamus, and their pack of rescued dogs.